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A sulfated metabolite produced by stf3 negatively regulates the virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Mar 2006
Mougous Joseph D, Senaratne Ryan H, Petzold Christopher J, Jain Madhulika, Lee Dong H, Schelle Michael W, Leavell Michael D, Cox Jeffery S, Leary Julie A, Riley Lee W, Bertozzi Carolyn R
Abstract excerpt
Sulfated molecules have been shown to modulate isotypic interactions between cells of metazoans and heterotypic interactions between bacterial pathogens or symbionts and their eukaryotic host cells. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, produces sulfated molecules that have eluded functional characterization for decades. We demonstrate here that a previously uncharacterized sulfated...
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